Pulitzer Prize Centennial: The Impact of Trauma Coverage

Three Oklahoma universities, the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum and the Dart Center will commemorate the centennial of the Pulitzer Prize. Featured speakers include Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Walter “Robby” Robinson of the Boston Globe's Spotlight team and Hailey Branson Potts of the Los Angeles Times.The events are free and open to the public. ​

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Boston Globe Editor-at-Large Walter “Robby” Robinson, who led the “Spotlight” investigative team that won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for its coverage about the widespread and systemic child sex abuse in the Boston area by numerous Roman Catholic priests, and an ongoing cover-up of pedophilia by the Boston Archdiocese.

Susan Ellerbach, Executive Editor, The Tulsa World

Ziva Branstetter, Editor in Chief, The Frontier in TulsaBranstetter and Ellerbach were part of the Tulsa World team that was a Pulitzer finalist in 2015 for their stories on the botched executions at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary.

Joe Hight, Endowed Chair of Journalism Ethics, University of Central OklahomaHight was editor when The Gazette in Colorado Springs won the Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting in 2014 for a story about dishonorable discharges.

The event will open with a special video tribute to the late Anthony Shadid, a native Oklahoman who was a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner. It is being produced by the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum. The panel discussion will follow.

Elana Newman, the University of Tulsa professor who is the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma’s research director

Raymond McCaffrey, a former Washington Post reporter and editor who now is the director of the Center for Ethics in Journalism at the University of Arkansas

Kenna Griffin, a former reporter for The Oklahoman who is now an assistant professor at Oklahoma City University

Desiree Hill, a former TV news executive who now teaches at University of Central Oklahoma

Mike Boettcher, a war correspondent, documentarian and visiting professor at Oklahoma University

Hailey Branson Potts, a reporter who was a member of the Los Angeles Times’ team that won the Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News Reporting for its coverage of the San Bernardino terrorist attack

Following this panel, Mike Boettcher will interview Hailey Branson Potts and Charles Porter IV, a citizen journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize for his photo of firefighter Chris Fields carrying Baylee Almon in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing